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few, and the chances of their destruction becomes greater, then the 
parent plant expends its power in protecting and rearing them, and 
itself, as it would seem for the sake of its progeny, becomes rigid, 
deformed, and is, as it was characteristically called by Linneus, 
O. antiquorum. In such a state it holds out but little temptation 
even to the most hungry of browzing cattle, to attempt to injure it in 
its unhappy looking condition. 
2. O. reclina'ta, Linn. Small Spreading Rest-harrow. ‘ Herba- 
ceous, spreading, viscid, and hairy; leaves all stalked, ternate ; 
stipules broadly ovate; peduncles single flowered; calyx about as 
long as the corolla, shorter than the closely reflexed eylindrical 
legumes, which have fourteen to sixteen warted seeds.” 
Hooker, British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 268. 
Habitat—* Steep bank close by the sea, two miles west from 
Tarbert, Galloway.’—Dr. Graham, 1836. 
Annual; flowering in July. 
“This little species has been gathered in the above extremely wild 
locality, in considerable quantity, by Dr. Graham and his students. 
It is a South of Europe plant. The O. Cherleri, Linn. from Mont 
pellier (Thomas), from Smyrna (Unio Itiner), and from Sicily 
(Swainson) ; and the O. mollis, of Tenore (Herb Hook), axe not dis- 
tinct from it.”—Hook. 
GENUS VIIL ANTHY'LLIS.—Linn. Widney-vetch. 
Nat. Ord. Papitiona'ceEm. LInn. 
Gren. Cuan. Calya tubular, five toothed, persistent, often inflated. 
Petals nearly all of an equal length. Legumes ovate, turgid, one 
to three seeded, enclosed in the calyxi—Name from aloe, a 
flower ; and sovdos, a beard, or down ; so called from the downy 
calyx. 
1. A. vulnera'ria, Linn. (Fig. 1114.) Common Kidney-vetch, or 
Lady's-finger. Herbaceous leaves pinnate; leaflets unequal ; heads 
of flowers in pairs; calyx with five ovate lanceolate teeth. 
English Botany, t. 104.—English Flora, vol. iii. p. 277—Hooker, 
British Flora, ed. 4. vol. i. p. 268.—Lindley, Synopsis, p. 77. 
Root woody, with long slender branches. Stems annual, herba- 
ceous, ascending about a foot high, round, mostly simple, clothed 
with pubescence and leafy, especially below. Leaves pinnate, downy 
on the under side and margin, smooth, and a glaucous green above, 
the radical leaves with long footstalks, and bearing a large simple 
terminate ovate lanceolate leaflet, rarely any lateral ones, these soon 
fall away, the rest with the terminal leaflet smaller, and bearing 
several pairs of opposite ones along the footstalk. Inflorescence 
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